The new Uize.escapeRegExpLiteral static method of the Uize base class provides a convenient way to escape regular expression special characters inside a string that is to be used as a literal match in a regular expression.

SYNTAX

escapedRegExpLiteralSTR = Uize.escapeRegExpLiteral (regExpLiteralSTR);

Using this method, any string can be escaped so that it can be used in creating a regular expression where that string can be matched as a literal match. Strings may sometimes contain special regular expression characters, such as the ( (open parenthesis), ) (close parenthesis), . (period), ? (question mark), and other characters that have special meaning in the context of regular expression strings. If you wanted to use a regular expression to match a string that contained any of these special characters, then the special characters would have to be escaped. The Uize.escapeRegExpLiteral method takes care of this for you.